Girteka
Transport company
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Girteka is a Lithuanian[2] transport and logistics company based in the city of Vilnius, operating in Europe and Scandinavia. It was founded in 1996 by Mindaugas Raila who, at the age of 24, bought a single used truck complete with a trailer.[3][4]
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 Headquarters in Vilnius | |
| Company type | Privately held corporate group |
|---|---|
| Industry | Logistics |
| Founder | Mindaugas Raila |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Europe |
Key people | Edvardas Liachovičius (CEO, Girteka Group) Pavel Kveten (CEO, Girteka Logistics) |
| Services | Temperature-controlled and high-value cargo transportation. |
| Revenue | €1.93 billion (2022)[1] |
| €164 million (2021)[1] | |
| €67 million (2021)[1] | |
| Total assets | €1.021 billion (2021)[1] |
| Total equity | €0.274 billion (2021)[1] |
Number of employees | 13,000[1] (2025) |
| Website | girteka |
Today, it is one of Europe's largest asset-based logistics companies.[5] Girteka delivers more than 700,000 full truck loads (FTLs) every year, with more than 6,000 fully owned trucks and 7,000 trailers that operate across mainland Europe, the UK, and Scandinavia.[1][6] Up to 95% of jobs are dispatched electronically,[7] resulting in 97–99% DIFOT.
Today, the company employs more than 13,000 people from more than 20 nationalities. Girteka has offices in Lithuania, Poland, Georgia, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.[5]
Scope of Services
Girteka specializes in temperature-controlled and high-value cargo transportation across the continent, delivering a wide range of goods, including fresh, chilled, frozen, and processed foods.[8]
Focusing on the following operational segments within road transportation: